Extracting the dimensions of age, sex, race from faces is fundamental for many aspects of
social cognition such as person construal, impression formation, and social interaction …

Recent work has shown that the idiosyncrasies of the observer can contribute more to the
variance of social judgments of faces than the features of the faces. However, it is unclear …

Existing models of facial identity perception often assume that information conveyed by
facial stimuli provides the sole basis for identity judgments, largely ignoring the involvement …

Face perception is based on both shape and reflectance information. However, we know
little about the relative contribution of these kinds of information to social judgments of faces …

This research utilized a novel methodology to explore the relative salience of facial cues to
age, sex, race, and emotion in differentiating faces. Inspired by the Stroop interference effect …

Using a composite-face paradigm, we show that social judgments from faces rely on holistic
processing. Participants judged facial halves more positively when aligned with trustworthy …

Social identities are inherently intersectional, and some of these intersections bias social
perception. For example, overlapping stereotypes about race and gender categories enable …

The human face conveys information to help determine a person's identity, category
membership, personality, emotional or mood state, what he or she might be thinking about …

Race and gender categories, although long presumed to be perceived independently, are
inextricably tethered in social perception due in part to natural confounding of phenotypic …

Abstract Sutherland and Young (Br. J. Psychol., 113, 2022, 1056) provide a comprehensive
and timely overview of recent developments in research on social judgements of faces …